David Vos

Let’s collaborate on democratizing insights from tabular data in Amsterdam! ✨

PhD directions: 1) fundamental techniques for tabular foundation models, 2) reliable mechanisms for AI-powered tabular data analysis.

Sharing w/ friends appreciated! ⬇️

The winner is '.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints', with 42 characters in a single token. OpenAI really values iOS development I guess 😅

As it turns out: It's one of the longest tokens without special characters. When considering special characters, the top ones look like this.

Today's funny tokenization realization: The GPT4 tokenizer has 1 single token for the entire lower- and uppercase alphabet.

IRLab Amsterdam made it to Bluesky! Go give @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social a follow for all things RecSys, IR, RAG, Conv AI, etc!

I'll get straight to the point.

We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT.

Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff.

It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

Congratulations dr. Zihan Wang! It was an honor to be your paranymph.

🚨 PhD position alert! 🚨

I'm hiring a fully funded PhD student to work on mechanistic interpretability at @uva-amsterdam.bsky.social. If you're interested in reverse engineering modern deep learning architectures, please apply: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

Yesterday @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social hosted the yearly NeurIPS-Fest, a pre-party for NeurIPS with a keynote talk, poster session, drinks and bites! 🍺🍻

The keynote was by @canaesseth.bsky.social , who talked about "Diffusion, Flows and other stories", presenting his 5 papers accepted at NeurIPS! 💥

I'm looking for an intern to introduce Sparse Embedding models to Sentence Transformers! If you're passionate about open source, interested in helping practitioners use your tools, and enjoy embedders/retrievers/rerankers, then I'd love to hear from you!

Links with details and to apply in 🧵

And we have a #Dagstuhl Report!
Evaluation Perspectives of #RecSys. Edited by @christinebauer.bsky.social, @evazangerle.bsky.social, and myself. Written by a whole host of fantastic #recsys people. Too many to mention (pic here www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/...)
drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/doc...

I think it would be hard to beat the Probabilistic Machine Learning books by Kevin Murphy. probml.github.io/pml-book/

I love the formatting of this one :) Thank you!

Awesome, thank you!

I'm looking for a textbook to take me through fundamental ML concepts again. Not too applied, and preferably with a Deep Learning angle. Currently considering the new Deep Learning book by Bishop, but maybe my Bluesky following has different recommendations. Let me know :)

Things you need as a PhD student:
- coffee ☕
- a living stipend 💰
- a website 🔗

For the last one, @kiragoldner.bsky.social has good resources: www.kiragoldner.com/blog/website..., www.kiragoldner.com/resources.html

a panda bear is rolling around in the grass in a zoo enclosure . Alt: a panda bear is rolling around in the grass in a zoo enclosure .

No one can explain stochastic gradient descent better than this panda.

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Top Information Retrieval Papers of the Week | Sumit | Substack A weekly curated newsletter about the latest research papers in the Information Retrieval domain, including Recommender Systems, Search, Retrieval, and Ranking. Click to read Top Information Retrieval...

This is such a great start of every week for me.

Credits to Sumit for compiling such an easy to digest newsletter on #IR, #RAG and #RecSys.

open.substack.com/pub/recsys?r...

Creating a 🦋 starter pack for people working in IR/RAG: go.bsky.app/88ULgwY

I can’t seem to find everyone though, help definitely appreciated to fill this out (DM or comment)!

Would love to be added! Thanks!

Would love to be added ✋

De overstap #BlueSky

As people are slowly moving over, I thought I'd make a list of people on here who work on IR & RecSys in Amsterdam. Who am I missing? Both researchers and engineers :)

go.bsky.app/BzPgLK2

Haha all good! You should definitely come pay us a visit at some point :)

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Added you! Will keep you to that promise :)

As people are slowly moving over, I thought I'd make a list of people on here who work on IR & RecSys in Amsterdam. Who am I missing? Both researchers and engineers :)

go.bsky.app/BzPgLK2